Personal insight

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73. What ways of working and studying have you developed that you think will assist you through medical school? What will you need to improve?

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Question 2

74. How do you think you will cope with criticism from colleagues or other health professionals?

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Question 3

75. Is there such a thing as positive criticism?

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Question 4

76. Give us an example of something about which you used to hold strong opinions, but have had to change your mind. What made you change? What do you think now?

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Question 5

77. Have you ever been in a situation where you realise afterwards that what you said or did was wrong? What did you do about it? What should you have done?

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Question 6

78. How do you think you will avoid problems of keeping up to date during a long career?

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Question 7

79. What are your outside interests and hobbies? How do these compliment you as a person? Which do you think you will continue at university?

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Question 8

80. Tell us two personal qualities you have which would make you a good doctor, and two personal shortcomings which you think you would like to overcome as you become doctor?

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Question 9

81. Medical training is long and being a doctor can be stressful. Some doctors who qualify never practice. What makes you think you will stick to it?

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Question 10

82. What do you think will be the most difficult things you might encounter during your training? How will you deal with them?

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Question 11

83. What relevance to medicine are the ‘A’ levels (apart from biology and chemistry) that you have been studying?

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Question 12

84. What skills do you think are needed in order to communicate with your patients; how do you think they are best acquired?

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Question 13

85. Can you learn communication skills?

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Question 14

86. How have you developed your communication skills?

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Question 15

87. What interests do you bring from school/college life that you think will contribute to your studies and practice?

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Question 16

88. What challenges do you think a career in medicine will bring you?

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Question 17

89. What do you think you will be the positive aspects and the negative aspects of being a doctor? How will you handle these?

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Question 18

90. What attributes are necessary in a good doctor? Which do you have, and which do you need to develop further?

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Question 19

91. Can you tell us about an interesting experience, and what you learned from it about yourself?

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Question 20

92. Thinking about yourself: what characteristics do you think you would most need to change in the course of becoming a good doctor?

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Question 21

93. If you could only tell me one thing about yourself, to help me to get a sense of you as a person, what would it be and why?

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Question 22

94. If you could change two things about yourself, what would they be and why?

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Question 23

95. What do you think are your priorities in your own personal development?

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Question 24

What qualities do you lack that would be useful for a doctor, and what do you intend to do about this?

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Question 25

96. What qualities do you think other people value in you?

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Question 26

97. How do you think other people would describe you?

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Question 27

98. How will you cope with being criticised or even sued?

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Question 28

99. Tell me about a time that you have been sad or confused.

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Question 29

100. Which of your qualities do other people find frustrating? What might you do about this?

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Question 30

101. You will probably have got high marks throughout school. On this medical course, most marks are awarded as ‘satisfactory’ or not. How will you feel about seeming ‘average’ in this new situation?

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Question 31

102. How will you cope with the death of a patient as a result of your mistakes?

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Question 32

103. Think of a time when you had to say ‘sorry’ to someone. How did that change your relationship with that person?

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Question 33

104. Some people are always very certain that whay they believe is right. Some people are never certain. What kind of person are you in this regard?

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Question 34

105. What makes a good working relationship?

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EQUALITY